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Re: The MangaHelpers Anime Awards Nominations Thread

People Live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true . That is how they define "reality" .
But what does it mean to be "correct" or "true"? Merely vague concepts ... their "reality" may all be a mirrage .
Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world , shaped by their beliefs .

Re: The MangaHelpers Anime Awards Nominations Thread

hmm it doesn't look like this Award is as popular as the manga one, I hope there will be a lot more suggestions in the next few days. I'm sure the Big 3 will take a lot of categories but it won't be as extreme as in the last one, at least I hope so :/

I wonder the about Best Opening/Ending theme, is it meant like best song for an OP/ED (as some people did it that way) or best motive/overall impression?

now for the nominations, I'm sure I will change quite a lot afterwards but for now I will go with what comes to my mind (even though the nominations are going to be really hard, there are so much good choices one could make):

Best Male Lead (benelori): Yagami Light (Death Note), because he's a memorable character and not just your typical lead person.

I’m a bit hesitant about letting Haji participate in the “best male supporting character” category, since he is the male protagonist of the series after all. I tried to look for information that could suggest that he is a supporting character but I couldn’t find it. Could you please nominate another character for this category? Or could you please post information about him that supports his nomination as a supporting character?

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Best Female supporting character (destiny4ever):

Jyu Oh Sei: Tiz

(she's a supporting character too, along with being a main character)

I’m a bit hesitant about letting Tiz participate in the “best female supporting character” category, since she is the female protagonist of the series after all. I tried to look for information that could suggest that she is a supporting character but I couldn’t find it. Could you please nominate another character for this category? Or could you please post information about her that supports her nomination as a supporting character?
Thank you for those awesome nominations, Hystzen!

Originally Posted by Hystzen

Best Animation TV series
Gargoyles

The MH Anime awards is only going to focus on series from Japan, so could you please nominate another series for the “best animation (TV series) category, Hystzen?
Thanks you for those fantastic nominations, Ustegius!

Originally Posted by Ustegius

Best Horror - Could Monster be nominated here too? It got me horrified many times.

Of course Monster can be nominated for the horror category. In fact, it would be a shame to leave such an amazing anime out of this award category.
Thank you for those wonderful nominations, naruto-niikun!

Originally Posted by naruto-niichan

I wonder the about Best Opening/Ending theme, is it meant like best song for an OP/ED (as some people did it that way) or best motive/overall impression?

The categories of Best Opening/Ending theme are all about the songs. So please feel free to nominate your favorite anisongs for those categories.

Last edited by destiny4ever; February 20, 2011 at 09:13 PM.
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Re: The MangaHelpers Anime Awards Nominations Thread

Originally Posted by destiny4ever

Thank you for all those great nominations, Hege!

I’m a bit hesitant about letting Haji participate in the “best male supporting character” category, since he is the male protagonist of the series after all. I tried to look for information that could suggest that he is a supporting character but I couldn’t find it. Could you please nominate another character for this category? Or could you please post information about him that supports his nomination as a supporting character?

I’m a bit hesitant about letting Tiz participate in the “best female supporting character” category, since she is the female protagonist of the series after all. I tried to look for information that could suggest that she is a supporting character but I couldn’t find it. Could you please nominate another character for this category? Or could you please post information about her that supports her nomination as a supporting character?

*I don't know of any other supporting characters, so that's why I'm trying to push these two again, otherwise both male and female supporting characters for me has to be blank, as I don't know of any others that I feel deserve to nominated*

Blood+: Haji

*Blood+ is my next most favorite manga/anime, after Claymore. I know a lot about Blood+, been doing extensive research on it in my passion for it, like with Claymore. I know (well, I'm forgetting stuff now, grr) it really well, inside and out.*

I completely disagree with the wikipedia saying he's a main character, after 'watching the anime', (as I haven't read the manga yet), I feel it's pretty blatant that he's a supporting character, and not even also a main character.

Haji is literally Saya's chevalier, her supporting male guardian/servant. He has no actual role in the plot of the story**, all he exists for is to protect, follow, support, and serve Saya.

So, that to me would be a supporting character, especially with not having any actual role in the plot of the story**. Ya, he's constantly shown/seen in the manga/anime, as he's always at Saya's side looking out of her, but that doesn't construe a main character in my opinion. He's her servant, her "side-kick", her "lackey", a supporting character in the most literal use of the word.

(other than originally being bought by the scientists to try to breed with Saya consensually opposed to her poor sister, Diva, which is hinted at being forcedly raped by an unknown suitor, imprisoned inside her tower. long explanation. they were a new species, and these two scientists wanted to study them. Diva was locked up in the tower to keep human influence to a minimum, to study her "naturally/wildly", while Saya was allowed freedom to live with humans and be influenced by them, studying her "unnaturally/tamedly/domesticatedly"), as the human scientists wanted to impregnant them, being such a rare new species and dangerously consisting of only themselves. They didn't know at the time how this new species, chiropterans, reproduced).

longer story:

A new species is found, literally a batwoman, who they call Saya (the mother), which they call chiropteran. chiropteran is the actual scientific name for bats, btw. they are NOT vampires, but literally batmen and batwomen. Mother Saya is dead, and these two rich scientists begin to dissect her, finding two egg-cacoons in her womb. Their scalpels couldn't penetrate the hard egg-cacoons, and accidentally Amshel's finger gets cut from the sliding scalpel, and a drop of blood falls unto one of the egg-cacoons. It begins to pulse-glow, and it starts to hatch, the other egg-cacoon is blood-dripped and it hatches too. They name the two seemingly human baby girls, Saya and Diva. As scientists they want to study them. As you know there's a difference from a wild animal uninfluenced by humans and a domesticated tamed animal influenced by humans. so, they decide to as a control to test both. Diva would be locked up in a tower to keep human contact to a minimum. While Saya would be allowed to live among humans. They would compare the results and differences. Amshel was in charge of Diva, and Joel was in charge of Saya. Part of their study was these chiropterans reproduction, being concerned that there were only two of them, Saya and Diva. It was hinted at poor Diva being forcedly raped by an unknown suitor, while Saya would be bought a slave boy, Haji, in hopes that with time, she'd come to love him and thus have consensual sex. Well, this is not how their reproduction worked. These chiropterans, Saya and Diva, were the Queens, of their hive like species. the eventual truth of their species is that: they bite humans, making male drone-suitor chiropterans known as chevalier. Amshel became Diva's first chevalier. Haji would become Saya's first chevalier due to him falling to his death to get a flower for Saya down a ways of a cliff wall, lol. She had seen how her own blood would heal herself when she got hurt, so she tried to give her blood to the dead haji on the ground below. he's brought back from the dead to become her first chavalier, instead. anyways, for Saya or Diva to get impregnated, it turns out that it can ONLY happen from a chevalier of the OTHER Queen. Amshel figures this out, and so Diva rapes Saya's 2nd and last chevalier, Riku, her foster little human brother, and then kills him after raping him. Diva gets pregant, and unique to their species, they always and can only have two babies, two girl babies. Saya would eventually kill Diva, but spares Diva's babies.

the plot is a war between Diva and Saya. Diva wants to help her own species, turning all of humanity into chiropterans with her chavlier Amshel's (along with her other chevaliers') help, and Saya wants to protect her adopted species, the humans, fighting for them against Diva, with ehr faithful Haji always at her side.

The main characters in Blood+ in terms of the story's plot are:

Saya, Diva, Nathan (secretly), and ~Amshel (being the plotter of it all and villain, besides Diva herself), and everyone else is just a supporting character.

Jyu Oh Sei: Tiz

I completely disagree with the wikipedia saying she's a main character, after 'watching the anime', (as I haven't read the manga yet), I feel it's pretty blatant that she's a supporting character, and not even also a main character.

Like Haji, Tiz literally just supports Thor, and has no significance to the story's plot.

Yes, she initially saves him, loves him, wants his babies, and helps and supports him, thinking she'll be his wife and having his kids. However, Thor isn't romantically interested in her, seeing her merely as a sister, and falls in love with another woman, Karin. Both Karin and Tiz end up dead, not contributing to the story's plot at all other than helping, supporting, and enraging (when Karin was killed) the main character Thor, and sacrificing her life (Tiz does) for Zagi, for Thor.

So, that to me would be a supporting character, especially with not having any actual role in the plot of the story. Ya, she's constantly shown/seen in the manga/anime, as she's always at Thor's side looking out for him, but that doesn't construe a main character in my opinion. She's just his "Second" (2nd in charge - of Thor's group), a supporting character in the most literal use of the word.

the main characters in terms of the story's plot are:

Thor, Third, and Zagi, and everyone else is just a supporting character.

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Thank you so very much for the explanations, Hege! I’m also a fan of Blood + and I do agree that even though Haji is defined as the “male protagonist” of Blood + on various sites, he doesn’t fit the criteria of what a protagonist is:

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A protagonist (from the Greek πρωταγωνιστής protagonistes, "one who plays the first part, chief actor") is the main character (the central or primary personal figure) of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve and with whom the audience is intended to share the most empathy.

As you have explained, he fits the definition of what a supporting character is better:

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A supporting character is a character of a book, play, video game, movie, television or radio show other form of storytelling usually used to give added dimension to a main character, by adding a relationship with this character. Sometimes supporting characters may develop a complexity of their own, but this is usually in relation to the main character, rather than entirely independently.

Because of the definition of a supporting character above and because of your explanation, Haji will be able to participate in the “best male supporting character” category.

As for Tiz, since she doesn’t fit the definition of what a protagonist is either; rather she fits the definition of what a supporting character is very well and plus your explanation, Tiz will be able to participate in the “best female supporting character” category.

Re: The MangaHelpers Anime Awards Nominations Thread

Originally Posted by scav

Best original serie : Gungrave
Best comedy: Golden boy
Best Anime overall: Dragon ball z then (its may be old, but the fights scene in DBZ are unique and i've never saw better than that in term of fight)

Gungrave isn't an original series (as the wikipedia article you linked to states: "based on the video game of the same name") Can you nominate another series? You can nominate Gungrave for "Best Adaptation (Visual Novel/Game)" if you like

Originally Posted by HegemonKhan

Best Insert Song (saladesu):

Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom Opening 2

(if you can't understand Japanese, you need to find a sub, as the words/song is "vicious")

Re: The MangaHelpers Anime Awards Nominations Thread

Best Male Lead: I really liked the anime, the voice over was brilliant, and his fight scenes...so I nominate Vash the Stampede from Trigun

Best Male supporting character: I would like to nominate one of the most complex supporting characters I've seen in an anime...Kururugi Suzaku...I liked him a lot

Best Female Lead: I was a bit indecisive regarding this category, because there are quite a deal of great females I've seen in animes...and in the end I was torn between Major Motoko from GitS, and Balsa from Seirei no Moribito...but since I think Balsa is more fit for the definition of lead, I nominate her...so Balsa from Seirei no Moribito

Best Male Seiyuu: well my favorite voice is definitely Aizen's voice, his performances are really great, and he can interpret a wide range of characters...if people don't follow the Bleach anime, then maybe it's better if I say OP's narrator...so I nominate Hayami Shō

Best Female Seiyuu: I nominate Matsumoto Wakako aka Kujira(transl. whale) for best female seiyuu...Orochimaru's performance is just excellent, it's one of the reasons the guy is my fav character...

That's all for now...these were the first names that popped in when I looked over the categories...the others are a bit harder choices, since I don't really remember all the stuff I watched...

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About the insert song/opening category. Which one would Paprikas opening scene go? It runs the opening credits at the same time, but since it's a film not series it can hardly be called an opening, because it also lays the setting to the film.

Also nomination:

Best horror: Monster, sure will do better in the mystery category, but it can't be argued that the psychologigal horror is there. It horrified me at parts a lot.

Re: The MangaHelpers Anime Awards Nominations Thread

Originally Posted by Ustegius

About the insert song/opening category. Which one would Paprikas opening scene go? It runs the opening credits at the same time, but since it's a film not series it can hardly be called an opening, because it also lays the setting to the film.

Does the “opening song” of Paprika appear in other parts of the movie besides the beginning of it?
If it does, then I think it can be considered as an insert song as well, but if it doesn’t then I think it will fit the definition of what an opening song is better.

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Thank you for those great nominations, maloose!

Originally Posted by maloose

Best Theme music: Inuyasha

As much as it makes me glad to see Inuyasha being nominated, sadly we don’t have a Best Theme music category. So could you please nominate Inuyasha in other award categories that you think Inuyasha deserves to be a nominee? ^_^

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and may I have this one?! The Coolest Character: Kyoya Hibari (Katekyo Hitman Reborn)

No in this awards event, but you have surely given me an idea for the next Manga/Anime Showdown here in the OC.